Awesome. Two major games in two days. Finally the game scene is getting a serious boost from some major titles. This is another game I remember playing back on the PS2 which was great fun. Alone in the Dark is a much more serious game than Devil May Cry though. It has a darker atmosphere and can be compared to titles like Silent Hill. Atari are behind it this time around though, so lets hope they’ve done a good job on it. Ratings look decent to bad, but if you enjoy a bit of a scare, this may just be something for you. HF and make sure you read the NFO. Installation is a bit more complex than usual since the developers required a component to be downloaded before one is able to play single player. Good job on cracking this one if it works =) If you have a slow connection or bandwidth limitations I would wait to download this one though until some reports have come in.

Edit: As expected this has been nuked due to Crack being in a sepparate archive (arrived a bit late according to NFO). This is nothing which will change your gaming experience though, so no worries. Nuke: [ Alone In The Dark-iND ] [ bad pack_should be iso_crack not included in image file ]

Taking the fear to a new level, the next-gen Alone in the Dark features the macabre style of the series played with new gameplay mechanics and a broader-reaching, action-packed play style. Explore fully-interactive realtime worlds, interacting with physics and roaming the wide-open, fright-filled environments.

This next-gen Alone in the Dark is also built around a unique episodic game structure — the story is split into a number of distinct 30-40 minute episodes, doled out one at a time as you play. Each time the player launches a saved game, the episode will begin with a video summary of the previous episode to quickly re-immerse the player in the story and removing the need to remember where they were or what they were doing. Every episode will close with a nail-biting cliff-hanger ending to rattle players’ nerves, and if the player is leaving the game a video teaser of the next episode will play to leave them wanting more.

finally!!! now i ask where are all those guys that said this is impossible, you can´t beat this protection, this one and steam are unbeatable….. well, guess they are hiding in their holes playing alone in the dark

I followed the instructions in the NFO, but when i start the exe it displays an error saying “Internal error message: unable to open languagefile “lang.ini”". Maybe because its the russian installer version? sorry for the bad english

Atari just distributes the game. Sure they make money on the sales and such but if the solvency of their business depends on the sale of one game then they deserve to go out of business. The whole solvency report is very weak.

Tony i don´t know why that guy said that is a fix from internal that´s a lie that is from gamecopyworld
some people is saying in nforce that the crack only work with iND version but i Dont believe it it´s the same as the others

UPDATE: ok folks i did this and the problem with language ini file is gone.do that the first line where it says german change it to your language and the line where it says language= change it to the number for your language. if you dont know your number check inside the original ini file.now the game should ask you START THE GAME press start.and voila have a nice gaming

Oki folks heres the deal the Ind crack its a fake it came out over 3 days ago on piratebay and does not work for anybody.
The keygen, language file,paul.dll,alone.exe they are all fakes and are confirmed not working several days ago.

Guys, just something i would like to share. This is taken from http://www.plube.com but i don’t know if it will work but please don’t flame or curse me if it doesn’t.

1. Copy the Keygen in The AITD 5 Folder to The Original .exe
2. Run keygen
3. Start the game
4. Use as Serial: READNFO from The Keygen And click Activate!
4.1 Now You you can see a Message: This serial number was used on too many computer!
5. Click acivate Manually
6. copy the activation request code!
7. Insert the activation request code on the keygen into The Free line
8. Close the ALONE IN THE DARK AKTIVATION!
9. Click Aktivate on the Keygen. Now, when the keygen close, the game activated.
10. Go To the KEYGEN FOLDER AND PRESS On securomkill.reg And press again Yes
11. Copy the ALONE.exe,The Paul.dll and the lang.ini from the KEYGEN FOLDER IN THE GAME FOLER!
12. START THE GAME!

As far I’ve read, I don’t recall anyone saying about the secureromkill.reg file.

Then pay a massive 17 euros for 3 months premium rapidshare account. You can download 10Gb a day at the maximum speed your internet can download at. I could download 7Gb in just over 4 hours from Rapidshare.

I’d say all the people downloading from the Pirate Bay are the silly ones since that site is watched by anti-p2p people more than ANYTHING. Plus it’s slow as hell… certainly not near the speed of a direct download. Private trackers are okay, but it’s not exactly easy to pay back a 7Gb hit to your ratio.

hmm…Do you know that you can’t use the Rs premium when you lend it to someone else?…I mean you can’t use it when others are using it, even if u manage to, the others’ download will stop. I tried it b4…yep…i share my Rs with my mates lastime b4 they update their system recently…so…NO SHARING of rs premium anymore…

Premium-users now profit from more flexibility regarding the download volume: It used to be limited to 10 gigabyte per day and can be “saved” NOW to a maximum of 50 Gigabyte. As a consequence, the volume that was not used is transferred to the following day automatically, up to a maximum of 50 gigabyte. If the complete download capacity is used up during one day, the premium-user is able to save another 10 gigabyte the following day.

So.. does anyone even know if this actually works?
It would be nice if someone finally released a WORKING crack.. I’m quite sick of the fakes and all those, it’s probably not the greatest game out there, but i’d like to see with my own eyes, can’t even play Bad Company cause my internet company won’t let me have more then 2 connections to their line (Ye, that wasn’t really that interesting was it)

Anyway, we want a damn crack! I Wish groups would actually let people know if there working on something or not :/

1.You will need ind version of the game, Tony posted links.
2.Download rar fixhttp://www.btmon.com/Games/Unsorted/Alone.In.The.Dark.RARFIX-iND.torrent.html
3.Now unpack Tony’s links and you will get ISO file.
4.Use ISOmaker or some other software that can change ISO files, and insert two rar fix files into game ISO. And save it as new ISO file.
5.Now install game and crack it as it says in .nfo
6.The game stared nicely for me, haven’t played it much, but it seems nice

Now the bad news : after i restarted my computer the game stopped to work. Don’t know why.

@180, the game is being released on 5 different platforms. PC sales won’t really make that much difference. and threat of bankruptcy never stopped the scene group from cracking games from small studios who could only produce one game at a time (unlike Atari) and relied on it to recoop all their costs. Plus Atari is going into shovelware after this so it makes no difference.

Either the scene groups are incompetent, or it’s a ridiculous case of ego-stroking with them going “look how gracious we are to spare Atari from our massive influence”.

Edit: As expected this has been nuked due to Crack being in a sepparate archive (arrived a bit late according to NFO). This is nothing which will change your gaming experience though, so no worries. Nuke: [ Alone In The Dark-iND ] [ bad pack_should be iso_crack not included in image file ]

so that means we need 3 archives
[ Alone In The Dark-iND ]
image file and
iso_crack,
to run the game properly.
has someone tried the Russian version I’m getting error with the German release.

This is Alone in the Dark? Seems worse that Alone 4! Just another Resident Evil or Silent Hill type of game.

The first three Alone in the Dark games, made before most posters here were probably even born were far better for setting and climate. It just seemed more perfect to set it in the 1920′s where there was more superstition and less technology.

NOW if they were to remake those games with modern graphics, that would be something!

i’ve played all of the parts, specially the 4te(for me, the best one) but remaking games is not the best way to make money, if your about to be unemployed.
some titles that Atari on the last years released wore KRAPP, and i mean it. they should think about how to make an original game and not to copy ideas from other publishers. Thats way they’re so poor now.

Well maybe 4 was ok, I exagerrated, but for me it lost the charm of 1920′s Edward Carnby’s investigations. Sure there were enemies and puzzles in the original trilogy that were diabolically tough to beat , not helped by the primitive (compared to now)interface etc.

Still I’d like a remake or at least to condense the best parts of the first 3 games into another, and to get them to run on modern systems.

I’ll wait for the PS3 version, i love games like this, so want it on my favourite system.

however if u guys can’t afford games you seriously need to get up off your ass and find some work, if you work and still can’t afford it, then what i’m saying doesn’;t apply to you, just get a better job

but seriously, pc games are cheap, just pre it off amazon, as i say, jobs solve everything and they make your parents proud.

Lasher:
I really don’t now what you’re doing in a place like this one. maybe the most of us have enough money to by it, but the less don’t want cus they don’t even know if it’s worth it. Atari event even released a demo.
what i wanna know it’s if somebody tried the crack with the russian release.

If Atari wants to “survive”, better start publishing polished games. It’s not like AITD is a bad game, but the controls (at least for the console versions) were so horribly BAD that it made want to rip off my arms and just throw them at the screen. I can only hope PC version has decent controls via mouse and keyboard, but like hell I’m gonna pay another cent for it…

Seriously, why would you post here, it’s not like you just enlightened everyone. I could pay for games but i just find 60€ for a game too much.. It’s not worth that much money, and seeing that in poor country’s you can buy them for 1€ i’m sure they could lower the prices here aswel.. But they don’t so i’m just going to continue pirating.

lol.. poor atari
since cracking or not cracking the game will not influence the company since the game is multi platform release, im sure some people that have spear money will go buy the game just cause they dont know about computers much.

since i have the game..and nobody is going to crack it.. ill try to on my spear time so expect iND proper release soon…

i can only agree, all of the cracks posted here nun of them work properly, just tried the last one and nothing happens, it keep asking after all the instructions on the NFO for a valid code, so don’t bother downloading this crap…

instructions
* Install the game – Full Installation.
* Mount the MI-AITD.MDS Mini-Image in DAEMON Tools v4.12.3.
* Set speed of the virtual drive to 1x using Nero DriveSpeed.
* Use an anti-blacklisting tool, like Y.A.S.U v1.3, to avoid blacklisting of DAEMON Tools.
* Play the Game!

165: well I download at 10MB per second the only limitation is my router cause its only 100Mbit and does not support 1GB so guess what that why Im not pi$$ed off that I downloaded the game and it doesnt work. I think Ill go take 50bucks and buy it in a local store.

I was just making the point that a premium rapidshare account is totally worth it. Things go onto rapidshare VERY quickly and with a premium account there are no waiting periods etc. I also don’t have to worry about maintaining a ratio on a private torrent site and I don’t have to worry about seeing Time Warner IP addresses on PeeGuardian.

The guy I responded to said his ISP blocks torrents, but they are unlikely to block a direct download from a site.

.. maybe you can explain to this “noob” (I’m 51 yrs old and been in the “scene” since BBS’s were the norm).. how mounting an image.. corrects the activation problem.. or the lang.ini error?

Sure you can get the ISO to run.. but until you get past the start button.. it doesn’t matter.

.. and as for the people claiming the release groups are “holding out” for Atari’s sake.. what a load of dung..

In ten years of releases.. like someone else said.. I’ve NEVER seen them be THAT thoughtful. It’s ALWAYS been about the competition with them.. first one out the door with a working proper.. wins. REAL scene group members are “underground”. They DON’T lurk.. or answer to rlslog, P2P, Usenet or anyone.. anywhere (except maybe VERY secretive IRC channels). Show me one DIRECT quote from a provable scne member anywhere regarding this.. and then I’ll believe they are benevolent, nostalgic.. caring individuals for the big mega-corporations they sodomize on a daily basis.

Gimme’ a break.

This protection is simply a bit tough for them.

I predict someone WILL “proper” this down the line.. eventually though. We all just have to be patient.

@243 dude that s not to actıvate ıt onlıne,with too few games you are allowed to play online cuz they dont ask you for actıvatıon code like civ 4,railroads etc.thats for the setup because it sometimes ask you for a serial when you are on the setup phase.all i wanted was to help.

instructions
* Install the game – Full Installation.
* Mount the MI-AITD.MDS Mini-Image in DAEMON Tools v4.12.3.
* Set speed of the virtual drive to 1x using Nero DriveSpeed.
* Use an anti-blacklisting tool, like Y.A.S.U v1.3, to avoid blacklisting of DAEMON Tools.
* Play the Game!

Well DUDE! apparently you haven’t even tried this one since it asks the activation during first launch of the game, not during setup.
Anyways it won’t work with this crack, period.
It’s a really crap game anyway, not going to waste anymore of my time on this one.

hey you.. I dont talk about this game..I talk about background of this group… and if it doesnt work… why RLSLOG put the game here and if you dont trust RLS why you post here… get your a.s.s out of here…

What a wanker most of the time its idiots lacking English language posting this virus/fake crack crap.
Anyway Respect to the first scene group that releases the crack. I hope it is crackable and the rumors of them supporting Atari(bankrupcy) for a while and delaying the crack are true.

If it is indeed impossible to crack it could be the end of downloading games, i hope not! Cause all those gaming producers are so greedy :/ way overpriced (crap) games.

I Tell u ppl, we should call for Gniarf and his friends, or even the Russians guys.
Only ppl who really try to make things work decently can do a PROPER Cr@ck.
And after they find a way to bypass this “protection” or whatever, the scener releases appear misteriously from the “sky”…

Guys………..watch this..I also worried about AITD crack.It’s the hardest game to crack I have seen. I’m now cracking software,games with OLLYDBG 1.1. Learn to crack games, software by downloading this as well as the tutorials..
But I’m also not an expert cracker. But I have opened the AITD.EXE file with this one and many codings are outside the parameters. So we have to wait loooooooooooong time 4 the crack….Near future This will be a big problem and we may not be able to download. We have to buy all the pc games…Try ollydbg 1.1 (not 2.0) and learn how to crack….

I agree with you it could be some time before the crack arrives but i dont believe this will be the end of downloading pc games eventually this will be cracked as well i have no doubt about it. The scene is just to big. If big software programs like Vista can be cracked this one will follow im sure.

The most logical way i can think of is recode the .exe file from alone in the dark to skip the activation from the server and launch the game immediately. Ofcourse some say it downloads some extra secure files from an Atari server :/ but if someone has the legit game this files can be transfered too the scene as well like a patch or update.

Yes, its this experimental spirit that lead us to suceed bypass this called “impossible to cr@ck” game.
The ppl with some knowledge should try things like -Bioshock, Gears Of War, Mass Effect(this one in particular) and that stuff of “Online Activation” – Maybe with a private remote server with the corrected files. Modifying the file that request Game Server to Activate and redirect it to that private server with the right files, I dont know.

1-”the file that request Game Server to Activate” is, AFAIK the game.exe, and that badass should have (crc-like) checks to make sure it isn’t modified (yes they can be bypassed – that’s what crackers do, amongst other). However I’m not a network expert, but if the game is programed to access server, say, 123.159.147.127 and you cut/remove you internet access and put a server with the same IP on your lan, the game *might* not make the difference.

2-And even if that worked, you wouldn’t be through yet. The game is going to send some encrypted informations to the activation server (cd key, probably SID, dunno what else). The game server has then to
A-decrypt those
B-play some insane maths that you WILL have to figure out
C-encrypt the result?
D-and finally send it to the game.

@305 DJMAXIMON: Missing files ain’t going to be a problem, simple hand copy&paste should be enough imo.
I think you’re right about the activation server&exe modification, but on the other hand I believe a fake activation server can be recycled for use on another game with minor tweaking.

Gniarf, U are very welcome here. I’m gonna post one thing from BIOSHOCK that might give it a clue for you or other interested person here.
P.S – I saw this in one site, its not mine
Paths for secuROM files

This will not get around the hardware bound aspect of your activation.
The backed up activation will only work provided that you haven’t changed anything “significant” in your hardware.

======================================================

This works. For Bioshock anyway. I have installed Bioshock, did the backup from the info above, uninstall the game, use the tool to get back activation point, restored my activation using the info above, and installed the game the second time. IT DID NOT ASK TO ACTIVATE AT ALL. I even did a reload of vista to see if still works and it does by just restoring the reg and files for securom then installing the game.

I have change out my video, added more mem, and added 1 or 2 hdds to my pc. It looks like the “hardware bound aspect” is only a motherboard check. I haven’t tried this on 2 different OSs on the same pc, but this is just a thought.

@307 anonymoose:Heeee…Not bad! I already knew spybot used host files to block nuisible sites, but I hadn’t even tought about using it that way. I see no reason for it not to work…yet

@309 Globe: quite interesting, I gonna play a bit with those files (though I bet the security is pretty though arround those). As for the hardware checks, I know securom uses CPUID checks somewhere else, so perhaps it’s what license files uses.

instructions
* Install the game – Full Installation.
* Mount the MI-AITD.MDS Mini-Image in DAEMON Tools v4.12.3.
* Set speed of the virtual drive to 1x using Nero DriveSpeed.
* Use an anti-blacklisting tool, like Y.A.S.U v1.3, to avoid blacklisting of DAEMON Tools.
* Play the Game!

@Gniarf:
Would be great to have our own securom servers for the future
All this encryption might be a little tough to crack though (as mentioned in a post above). And as for everyone telling us the game is not worth it: GO TO HELL! What do you think will happen if no one cracks this game? You think our next Bioshock or Mass Effect won’t come with the same kind of protection if it proves to be uncrackable? Better crack it down now and make the companies see it’s all not worth the hassle, so they stop using this kind of activation.

Mount image, use nero drivespeed, use a cr@p program named YASU, avoid blacklidting etc, etc…. Should I disconnect dvdrom and modem as well?

Oh, my god give me a break! why should I suffer all this torture just to play a damn game! All we need is a fixed exe and that’s it! It is always that way and you know it!

Do you guys remember yourselves some time ago eating your own flesh about a beta of a game called ASS-ASS-INS GREED and how to bypass a damn stage where it always crashed??? Wasn’t then a properly cracked version released but none of you was interested anymore as you were all so much exhausted with the lousy beta and the crash issue???

Garegin – No actually, filtering out lemons like this one through reputable game review sites like IGN just means I’ve saved myself time and headache downloading something I’ll likely agree with the majority on as being a steaming pile of fail. Since IGN has been right about so many bad games, and so many good ones, I can somewhat comfortably assume their ability to scrutinize and discern (albeit subjectively) is in line with my own view. They’re professional, and even if their score is a few points off, when you average ALL gaming review sites scores, you’ve got a good answer.

It’s called being parsimonious with my time. It’s called being smart. Meanwhile you keep rolling the dice and getting burned, only to turn up a good find once every 10 times.

Maximum what the crackers could made is bypassing the activation once with the IND release…..ut the problem is that after the computer is been restarted, the game refused to run again…and on the second day the activation server was changed…so the crack didn’t work at all.

Its like DJ maximon said, its not about the game anymore if it is crap or not, its about the security. What if it prooves to be uncrackable?? Or variations of this program start to come up. Dont you think other companies will invest in this also. That would be a dream come true for them. I pray that day never comes!! Imagine the scene dead and all those money greedy companies filling their pockets. Bah i so want to hit someone from Atari now XD

What I wonder is what’s gonna happen to those people who buy this game after Atari has shut down it’s business… I mean I highly doubt that they’ll be keeping that activation server up and and running then…

I played a bit with files in the C:\Users\%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\SecuROM\UserData folder, they’re most likely a waste of time: if I delete them, remove the internet plug and don’t put the dvd in the drive, my mass fx still starts (I’m no longer using cracks for this one).
side question: did you have 2 files with weird filenames (mix of greek, indian or korean(?) letters and so forth) in the userdata folder? I had, and they too seem useless, they don’t even get recreated.

Thats it Gniarf, its that kind of experimentation that gonna lead us to some answers.
Infortunatly I dont have the knowledge, but I quite understand how the things work.
And my researches are always to try to help ppl like you.

Go forward Gniarf and other mates here with the knowledge

P.S – And for those who say that’s gonna be impossible to bypass this go play “So Blonde” or Whatelse…

Atari is down anyway..if that is the game that Atari depends on for their survival,then they don’t deserve to survive..they should have invested money from protection on the game itself.if that was really good game ppl won’t w8 for crack till now they’d have bought the game,for me,even if the crack would come a year later,I WON’T BUY THIS GAME

The most uncrackable games ever list:
1. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory – 3m with uncrackable status
2. Alone in the Dark: Near Death Investigation – first iso appeared on the 21′st of june (RUS) – and still uncrackable
3. Bioshock: – two weeks with uncrackable status…

Its Crackable but due to some underground Rule none Of cracker Group will Crack it till it have good Sold Out.
cuz the manner of Cracking is to have your 2nd Copy of Game But when that Game Need online Activision 2nd Copy Doesnt matter…..so Just Wait and be Patient !!!

to Razor911: If you are not joking that you are really one of the members of Razor1911 cracking group, could you explain why the game is much harder to crack than Bioshock ? And please tell us if the agreement between the leading cracking groups and Atari is not a MYTH. Is Atari really in a big ass ? And could you give us some clues how to bypass the in-game activation or how it really works (sorry for many questions)…

iv never heard of this Gniarf guy, so because he says im currently trying to crack it, i see everyone saying thank you Gnarif, all hope is with this dude.

lets see, hi im warlock and im currently trying to crack this game!

lol, a real release group wouldnt be here trying to say were working on it, they would just do it secretly liek its soposed to be done… so dont gt your hopes up to much on this guy, think id rather a PROPER over a random dudes first crack attempt

Hey Warlockv2, just to inform u that if wasn´t Gniarf with his tryings and Knowledge, u probably never play “Mass Effect” properly, cause the “Vitality Cr@ck/Fix” only appears AFTER our mate Gniarf discover a way to fix things in that game.
Like I said before, as soon as someone like Gniarf find out a way to bypass this, I BET U That sceners come with a “called” PROPER one day or two after that.

P.S- I respect alot the Group Sceners cause they gave to All of us the possibility to play almost every games in the last 8-10 years, maybe more, I dont know…
But lately something weard is going on with them.

As surprising at it might be I agree with warlockv2. I’d don’t like at all ppl putting all their hopes in me – especially because I’m certain I can’t crack this game, unless there is a flaw in the paul.dll and the ind keygen works with manual activation.

And for everyone’s info, I didn’t CRACK mass effect, I FIXED 2 bugs (1.5 actually) in reloaded’s crack and 1 in vitality’s.

PS: if other people are working on making this game work, could they drop a word – just say hi or how things are going on your end?

Razor1911 and all those “big” crackgroups just don’t have enough skills. I don’t claim I have any crack skills, it’s just that they fail at what they do. They just can’t crack AitD 5 and are probably a bit embarrassed, so some people say they don’t want to work on the crack because of the fake “almost” bankrupt of Atari. One word: BULLSH*T

i’ve been working on a crack for this game lately and i was a bit more of a stuck..
i will try to explain in simple words

well before we start we need to understand the action the game is making to actually start the game itself
first of all you need a key that to activate it
then the game connects to a server *im not gonna post* to activate your key.. it send a 64bit crypt information keys to the server, the server is calculating the data received and then sent to a costumer to activate it..
one it is activated the game is fully playable

now… there is a manual activation method which is the same but only on the client-side that means that it doesnt send additional data to a server but it calculates client-side and if the crypt code is matching to the recieved unlock key then the game will automatically work storing information in registry and memory to check

so i was thinking about a method to launch the game with no additional code inspection from server or calculation just a straight forward jump method to start the game engine and all the imports needed but thats a lot of redirection work… and i am lazy so maybe and maybe not the crack will be done soon…

So you both say that editing the dll is the easiest way to do it? Darkcoder’s Bioshock crack includes cracked exe, different DLL and securom entries. Obviously the securom entries are there to allow the cracked exe. The dll though is a bit interesting. It says at the notes that its for Preview and review while AITD’s says its Activate and play. So did he find a dll from steam and then just cracked the exe and installing securom entries?

what darkcoder did which we refer to also called d4rkm4nx\icslb :>
is getting the exe emulated securom crypt section and removing cd checks via putting it in a vm cage “honey pot”
the dll was edited with jumping methods to recover the missing codes that delivers you to game sectional execution
it took lots of time because there was many redirection and structure fixing and IAT’s that were paused at some point to make it possible basically we can call it jump\redirect\reconstruct strict code following method but thats just sounds awful so we’ll call it onehitwonder :>

LOL all the next generation crackers are gathered in this blog. That’s an honour. xD

I won’t ask what you mean’t with the onehitwonder, because as far as I remember it was the group that released the nuked bioshock before you make the crack. I’m afraid that if I ask you what you really meant, in the end we will discover who killed J.F.K.

@ iCsLB: Which API is used to read the data sent by the server? – I haven’t done much network programing…
Why use a virtual machine for the honey pot instead of hooking the win api used to read the cd (dunno its name)?

“a method to launch the game with no additional code inspection from server or calculation just a straight forward jump method to start the game engine and all the imports needed but thats a lot of redirection work… ” Err…I don’t understand that well…
“jump method to start the game”->jmp Alone.OEP?
“all the imports needed”->what are imports doing there? Does paul loads dlls for the main exe (not only for itself)?
“redirection”->I already know about the securom buffers (anti-dump trick) for the main exe, but you ain’t speaking about those redirections, are you?

@400 santa: I never wanted to play this game. BTW I doubt that there will be as much comments are for mass fx – when I came up ppl were already filling 1 page/day, look at what we have here.

Anyone knows if the ind keygen _really_ does more than just displaying the serial given in the nfo?

this activation system that this game uses is very similar to Cryteks Crysis demo pre-release remember? you needed a working key so it could check through the internet and it even had THE SAME .dll file that was the security as in this game “paul.dll” same as they used

Update:This is why the activation process doesnt work mainly because the activation process involves downloading some stuff from Atari’s server. I’m no expert but i think each of these files are unique so you just cant share these activated files and make another install on another machine work.

There is a manual activation function and in the past manual activation is a weak point where crackers can take advantage off by making a keygen. Its not so easy here because the process is not entirely offline. First you need a valid serial, then a unique request code is generated from the serial, and then you have to submit the request code to atari to get a manual activation key.

This can be exploited by making a keygen that can generate a activation key from a specific serial and request code combination. The team blackdrug keygen uses this method. However it wont work for long since Atari can just ban the serial the keygen uses when too many people use it to obtain a request code. Which is what happened with the blackdrug keygen.

So I think the big boys are working on something, it’ll just take time. It would be bad for the future of the scene if they dont. If AITD5 remains uncracked, more and more publishers will flock to SONY and start using this Securom7/SecuromPA protection combination.

It’s only a matter of time really. AITD5 will be cracked, otherwise the future of the cracking scene will be very bleak indeed.

There is no “uncrackable” system. It is just matter of time. And when it get’s cracked, it will be useless for the devs in the future, for it will be cracked in the matter of days in future releases. Like it always was. I really do not know the reason AitD 5 hasn’t been cracked yet, but it surely will, this way or the other, sooner or later.
There are some games that do not have the crack but are old about a year or more, but even so, they have ways of launching. This one has none, and some will be released really soon, I could freakin’ bet.

@403 m33ts4k0z:Huh? I thought aitd was like mass effect: one online activation and no dvd checks?
I confirm the keygen does nothing with the registry as I don’t see any registry related import. There is also no Read/WriteProcessMemory so it isn’t reading part of the memory to generate anything.

What else can you do:
1-paul displays dialog boxes like “you must ativate the game [next] [exit]” “please enter serial [...] [next] [exit]” etc etc… I’m trying to force it to display the manual activation screen – should be like adding a jmp/call somewhere – yu can try this too.
1.5-You can do what iCsLB was speaking about – cut down the activation (no not the “onehitwonder”).
2-You can try to answer nit’s question @405
3-You can try to get past error 3000 when opening alone.exe with olly (if you get error 10000,2000,8007,8010,8011 I can help).
4-other?

Yes that’s what we all believed at the beggining. It looks like the game needs the DVD in order to start after all. This is confirmed from various sources. Check the ASCII strings inside alone.exe and you will locate the specific part of the code that I’m talking about. In addition at gamecopyworld the message has changed to that one:

“This game does requires the DVD to be present after the game has been activated with a valid/legal serial. So a Fixed EXE is not needed!”

It was “This game doesn’t require…” but they changed it. I have friends who rented the game from a gamers club and they confirmed this situation… :/

truth, no.
why?
because [this just a conclusion i got to by messing around]
if you just go and overlap the activation gui located at the PA dll the game will just do nothing it you point it to oep to request a game launch…

because there still be missing memory codes
like a broken chain of activities
there must be some kind decrypted codes that complete this chain and will be able properly launch the game

and these codes will be generated and sent from the server after calculating the key or manual key.

it is similar to symantec AV activation routine

it still can be exploited but there will be a need to generate the key structure combination itself so the console can receive it, since it receives any key that will be a problem so we basically need to get information and key generation methods from the server

Revocation tool : If you have decided to bypass the revokation process during de-installation or if you did not have an Internet connection during de-installation, the license has not been revoked from your computer yet. If you’re not going to reinstall the game, you can download the revokation tool from this web site. This tool can be used to revoke the license installed on your computer without de-installing the game.

Couldnt someone upload the original licence file(s) online and then copy the necessary files to the AITD directory? In theory if the game thinks its already activated since the licence file(s) are there, wont the game start then? Since they speak of a “licence installed on your computer”

instead of spending million in this ridiculous protections atari could spend that and hire a competent game designer, this game is total crap. keep it. btw how many console lsrs are downloading and playing this game 4 free.

Dudes! This exe works the same as the bioshock one. In “online mode” it synchronises the serial with the server to check if it is valid, resulting in a working exe.
In “offline” mode, I believe you would need a keygen based on that activation code. Teh end.

first:I got rid of the lang.ini error with ind paul.dll
then questions:
1-When I use the ind paul.dll, the game exits just after the “connect to server” progress bar completes. Does that happen to everybody or is it just because I have only the ind “crack”‘s files?
2-are the “cracked” paul and the retail different? (I already asked that, but I got 2 different answers)
3-if they are different, could someone posy the RETAIL paul?

@ 441 Dr.Trif:according to post 397 iCsLB might know.
[sudently pops up]Yeah that would be smart, take a securomed game, change the master server’s address to your site’s so as to generate additional traffic=publicity bucks.

@SPD GOD DAMMIT read the thread its not a problem just change german to default that won’t make it work though there is not yet a crack or way of bypassing activation we just have to wait and hope one of the pros take pitty on us and attempt a crack…..ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME

kamiii you should said that you have the image not the original DVD you know from stores ,installed and working beacause once the activation is done the alone.exe is unlocked ,what i need is the 3 files a mentioned before from the installed and activated game and working is all that i need

cuz once the game is activated since we don´t need a fixed exe that´s my thinking that only the paul.dll is the file we need to crack ,the activation process is to replace this two files lang.ini and paul.dll if you use the revoke tool you will see in the log file that cannot replace this two files cause the game isn´t using a valid serial .what i think we only need this three
alone.exe – just in case
paul.dll – the replaced one by the activation process
lang.ini – - the replaced one by the activation process just in case too

cuz paul.dll is the real file in question
if i´am wrong tell me please i´am a noob in this thing i never cracked anything ,i just wanna help

peace
by the way stop saying or asking if the iND version works
there is no crack yet so people give a rest ok?

if anyone have the ORIGINAL GAME (DVD,BOX,SERIAL,someone who buy the game) do a kind
post here this three files that i mentioned up in the post please maybe will help on something

well i got the game activation to get past the initial stage…..it took the serial, refused it, went to manual, got the request, used the keygen and replaced all files, imported reg key etc…….then when i ran the game it brought up a window saying enter a serial to start the game, i did, it connected to a server, and said success. click start game to play. i did that, then nothing happened

OLLYDBG alone is not going to get the job done, you’ll need softICE, IDA, customised software and in-depth knowledge of secuROM7+ etc .. n00b ‘crackers’ need not waste their time. This one isn’t especially tough, just very time consuming. We’re getting there. Please be patient.

Hey there, I am hungarian and I just bought a magazine with a test from this game and there is a box which writes down how the protection works and it says that the game downloads something after the activation and until it is done the game won’t work. I’m not much of a hacker myself, but i thought this info might come in handy. Peace

For some reason I think that there’s another pretty easy way to get through activation. We just need a guys, who bought original game, then he revocates his license and gives us his serial and revocation codes. Maybe this would foul the activation system and make it believe that we actually hadthis game activated on our system?

We need someone to give us the activation files, i.e. to export all registry entries that contain the name Alone in the Dark or Securom, as well as all files/folders that he/she will find on his/her’s computer…

Guys the revocation tool doesn’t backup anything, it just erases everything from the registry and system. So it can’t be used to transfer information. However if someone can do that, its possible to monitor the activites of the revocation tool and then get files and registry manually. But this is not a crack and a proper way to play the game.

Once more there is NO version that works. Be it german, russian, english and so on.

Russian it is, kamiii.
And russian localizations un[friggin]fortunately never contain other languages. But Nodvd crack worked with russian Bioshock, so i don’t think it will be different here IF someone cracks it

2 m33ts4k0z
> The game IS NOT localized. Only the installer is in russian and only on akela’s upload. The game from ATARI came out ONLY in MULTI5.
Man, it’s ridiculous Maybe I’ll buy one for you?)
MULTI5 version and Russian by Akella is not the same thing

Man for now this is going no where . Someone has to upload his licence files. But since that game also downloads “something” from the Atari server for activation there is no way of knowing what that is.
It could be an extra file or an edit of an existing file.

For now im putting my hopes in someone that uploads:

- The alone.exe
- paul.dll
- lang.ini

Also i think you also need the Securom files located under Application data. It says in the readme it contains all your activated stuff.

@500 You will eat your words, a crack will be coming soon I believe in it, the piracy will not end, and if it does, the video games merchandising will not be as good as it is because not everybody can afford games every week or every month hell there are people who has a game once in a year maybe. They will not be foolish enough to put an end to piracy by putting the same protection as AITD , the crackers will crack it, it will take the time needed maybe it will not be cracked today, or tomorrow or next week but it will be cracked.

What do you mean “it’s far from Atari version”? check the manual unlock site – you can actually choose russian there. Akella publishes the game in ex-USSr territories, but it’s quite the same. I won’t be surprised if they will send you to Atari support if any problem occure. it’s just that a lot of games work nicely with multi nocd cracks (except for the starforced games)

Man I’m from Macedonia. And where I bought the game there was no crack (yeah it worked with SFNightmare but not on all motherboards, only on those with chipset nForce 3). The crack from RELOADED was released some time after (the game was released at the end of 2005, and the crack was released at the end of september 2006)…

Actually it’s not THAT bad. People at the Russian’s forums found out the way how to use 1 serial infinitive times…. They use 1 simple key at the activation site to get the golden key…with the golden key the can activate the game without the internet connection…..but the problem is that every golden key is unique and works only with the PC it had been created for…..And you must revoke your original serial (not a gold one) to fool the activation site and let it think that the serial is free…. Then you toss the original serial to someone else and he repeats the action and gets his personal golden serial and then the process cycles….

2 m33ts4k0z
> this is far from official release from Atari
You know, in such a way we can say that Atari is far from official release too, because the actual developer of the game is Eden Games. Don’t forget that Atari ONLY distributes AITD in Europe. The same thing is being doing by Akella in ex-USSR countries

@496 Whatever: If you’re not into crypto, give up on the appdata license files. They are computer specific, well according to post 309 they are mobo/cpu specific in fact. Anyway I tried copying my license for mass effect from one comp to another (totaly different), and guess what it didn’t start.

the idea on russian forums is that you can use one license key to unlock the game manually on the official unlock page http://www.aitdunlock.com/ and then (in case there is some other factor we don’t know) start the game while offline.
basicly you have to start the exe, write anything istead of the serial, then go to “manual activation” and copy the unlock key (like with the IND crack), then paste it on the unlock page with a valid serial, get the activation key, go offline (maybe not needed, though) activate the game manually and voila, the game is activated. They claim, that the key WON’T be banned after that. The activation key is unique to each PC, and possibly will work until you change some parts (so maybe it will work even after Windows reinstall).
So the only thing everyone needs is a friend with a game who can give you his serial for 5 seconds.:)

It’s not that simple. When you request the golden serial aka the manual activation code, the activation site counts that request like the game was activated normally….So you must revoke your key before the activation…That’s why I advice you all guys to use the manual activation without the net connection. There is a possibility, that game sends back the report about it’s activation…

hahaha. Starforce 3? piece of cake. it was hard to crack THEN, but now it’s as easy as without it. Securom+ activation? hard, but this is the only game out there that is still not cracked. Try to crack any new starforce 5-5.5 game:)
And even if i tell you the forum name, what’s in it to you?:)
And about activation – i, too, have doubts about the activation offline. If the server is the same, it must read the hardware of any person who activated the game and if somebody tries to activate it offline with the other hardware (unlock) code and the same serial it must say something. So i think the activation must be rovoked, then offline manual activation must be done, and only then a person who gave this key may activate the game again. Maybe it’s not as hard as i think, though.

If this f*cks up the scene im so quiting gaming for good no lie, no way am i f*cking buying all these overpriced games to find out its a bug infested piece of sh*t.
Im not filling the pockets of those greedy game producers f*ck that.

no.. there is some application that is uncrackable actually
like for example..
steam by valvesoftware
yes it can be patched by many options but it is still working server-side it means keys, codes, certs are all generated serverside and cannot be cracked unless copycat server is created working exactly like the masterservers.

i download crack in emule, it contains paull ddl, aidt.exe and notebad keys , those keys working, after i copy 1 of thos keys and click activeate game tells that product is activated and press the start, i press and nothing happend?

Yep fake, alone.exe, paul, keygen and regfile binaryly identical to those in the ind keygen

I logged all instructions executed between when I click “start game” on the manual activation menu and the moment it displays “activation failed” so I almost certain the manual activation code check is in those… 70 800 lines. If anyone wants to have a look I can upload the file.

We r tryin to fix, but we cant, and suddenly it will came out from some group named ”blablabla’ and we will be happy .
If u dont mind i can help with the paul.dll. Its editable with Resouce Hacker, and it is created with it.

Jokerski we cannot allways espect from the others
if we want something we must reach for it you know talking like this isn´t that great for the people that have been working for a crack or something that kills that annoying activation system,atari instead of going UP is going down deeper to bankruptcy in less time than they thinks cause not every people can afford to have Internet and Buy Games

they wanted to kill piracy but try what they try piracy will never end.

@601 iCsLB: It’s painful to say, but I don’t understand what you meant.
what I did was to got to the menu where it gives a code and ask you to go find the matching unlock code and paste it below.
So I put some crap (something like “ertyui”) instead of a valid unlock code.
Then I put a bp at what I beleive to be the end of the message pump.
Then clicked “start game”.
Then I started olly’s run trace (mode “trace into”) and waited until I see the “(manual) activation failed” menu.
I hope it answers you question.

@599 benficaboy: I hope it’s valuable, but what really important is very diluted.

gniarf yes that answered my question…
btw i just tested this game
i think i made some progress i just find aout by putting a spy on the game while it connects to the server and what it exactly does and where do files\registry goes and what logs has been made

i decided to share info with you so if you have like messenger i would like to give you that info so..

iCsLB
why you don´t share that great info with us too?we are people right we want too help too you know?not just hidding that info ,maybe if someother person who knows how to handle it that info maiybe he can figure it out iCsLB

Jokerski
not that info you are talking about ,i know that info if you read carefuly you will see what i meant with that

“gniarf yes that answered my question…
btw i just tested this game
i think i made some progress i just find aout by putting a spy on the game while it connects to the server and what it exactly does and where do files\registry goes and what logs has been made”

@618 benficaboy: actually it’s full of personal information. I wouldn’t like to give away my comp name, os, hardware specs…. like that.
Anyway from the 3 license files from the \appdata folder OR the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SecuROM are designed to be enough to (re)activate after formatting. (am I wrong).
It seems that no other relevant file is created other than those mentionned above – I still further study.

PS
Thus (as I have understood), having “a gold key” it is possible to activate game always on the РС (even after reinstallation ситемы and if you have no connection to the Internet) ==> 1) serial number for activation is not necessary to you any more 2) your serial number never will get to the black list 3) only you know serial number

PSS
In an ideal it is better to lift a resource which was automatically substituted: valid SN and a code of inquiry about an unblocking in the web form: http://www.aitdunlock.com:443/index.php#step1 also returned an activation code.

If you go and rent the game from a video club, then they give you the manual which usually has the serial number as well. I had some friends that rented it but back then I didn’t think like asking the key and now they returned it back to the store…

Hi guys, iv’e downloaded the ver from plube:http://www.plube.com/2008/07/09/aloneinthedark-ind/
and i did everything they worte. the thing is that i got some error:
“Interal error message: unable to open Languagefile ‘lang.ini’ ”
what should i do now? wait for fixed crack?
Thanks.

The files that you uploadet are not an crack but i found them in an other threat.
The user that postet the files there sayd that the files are downloadet after the activation. But i dident make them work.
Maybe someone else can make it ore it helps to make a real working crack.

Well, since you only have to activate it once, couldn’t it be as simple as checking for whatever registry entries are written once properly activated (Obviously someone would need to actually buy the game for this)? I suppose there’s the files that are downloaded from the server; you’d need those as well, I presume. Since it only has to download them once, surely it’d be possible to just trick the system into thinking you have a working activation?

Hm, unless the server writes information specific to the system it’s being activated on (or something similar)…
As it stands right now, do we even have any idea what happens when the game is properly activated? If we don’t, that may be the reason progress is rather slow.

We will see. Because there are many rumors about the groups that they wont make an crack because the developer has much money problems. But if it so it change nothing because the PC version of this game is the only one that will not start at the moment and all the konsoleros can copy the game and play.

At the end it is only 1 of 5 game versions not playable if you dont buy it!

We are f*cked i dont believe in a crack no more its too advanced. Maybe after months of analyzing the securom code and activation procedure. Believe me this crack wont come out any time soon you can put this game in the freezer. Its not that great anyway but still its like others have said this will lead to other companies using this sh*t for bigger titles without a doubt.
So if it in the end is uncrackable its over for pirating pc games. R.I.P.

OK, now if we count the groups that are in action, there will be RLS log group, Macedonian group, Russian group and rest of the world.
Now u ll ask why Macedonian, because my group of crackers, hackers etc. are activated in searching and makin the crack. So this is not a small job, because if we do this, we will be able to make cracks for the rest of the games usin this kind of a protection.
Sry if a miss some group.

Dear Greek, u r ocupated teritory is part of Macedonia, september this year u will be sorry for that words, and u ll eat them.
Macedonians remember, greeks suffer.
Now stop with your stupid posts, and try to post something useful, or maybe read history, because from your post i can see that ur history knowledge is poor.

@658 iCsLB:Virtualization to pass manual activation won’t help, as the manual activation code you enter has to match the other manual activation code (which is pseudorandomly generated).
But if someone is going for virtualisation, then “just” put a vm around alone.exe and copy the 3 appdata files.

other matters:
-What does the manual activation code (the one you enter) look like (length, number&position of dashes etc…)
-So far we (I?) assumed that the actvation was just something between paul&the atari servers. Well in the midst of that mess there is ONE call to alone.exe.015AE480. Dunno what it does yet (except running 10+ integrity checks on itself).

Mate, I had the chance of studying Greek history at the Swedish University where I’m studying, Macedonia is the northern part of Greece, the land of Alexander the Great since before Christ and the nowdays host of the second biggest city in Greece . Skopje must be really happy with the name F.Y.R.O.M. You can’t get something that doesn’t belong to you, this is called stealing but you can try to “steal” some of the light that a fabulous ancient civilization had. The European Union will never give you that specific name because simply it doesn’t belong to you. I’ve also studied the subject and the Skopje version of history and really it’s ashame that they teach you lies that have no justified explanation and have nothing to do with the global history that’s being taught worldwide.

Yup, tested with both exe files – from the archive and the original, paul.dll is cracked. But it asks for the serial with the each start and don’t actually start the game. Good luck with the exe file:)

I’m sorry to say, but we have business with a delusional being here ! Another victim of the Greek propaganda! And these “Greeks” that live now in “Greece”, you think that they have something in common with the Old Greece! They look like gypsies to me (short, fat, and dark skinned). So will someone explain to me why they want to change our name – MACEDONIA! Or all they want is not to lose the Eageian Macedonia that the got with the Bucharest Treaty? So, f*** y** Greeks you are not getting anything from us!

BTW to the rest of the people in here: Guys you have my support in making a crack! I believe in you all!

lol I’ve been to Greece many times and no they are far from gypsies, they do have corruption as you aslo have. Look at the politician who got arrested for corrutpion . There is no propaganda outside Greece. It’s well known that every country adds some parts in their history that are not so accurate. Well the history I’m studying is not written by greeks. I have many greek friends and they do love you, they have no problem with you as a country. The problem is that Macedonia was the name of the whole area at Balkans in the past. They lost areas after wars and wars and wars but the name was given by greeks. That’s the resume of the whole story… No offence… Cheers

Man, I know that you study that kind of stuff at school! But understand this: They want us to change our name! We cannot do that! We ARE Macedonians, and we won’t change our name, because our national identity is in stake here! So…
Back on topic….

@682
And the name was not given by the Greeks……..
You know what they say: Different author, sees the history from different angles! So how can you be sure that the history is correct right? Anyway where are you from?

Sorry for posting twice in a row but I just had another idea. What about using the revocation tool? I think that it can give us a fair idea what the game requires and what exactly happens after activation! I’m not familiar with the cracking methods but I think that this is a good idea!

These FYROM guys are so funny. Our politicians suck big time, and gave them the opportunity to claim that “Macedonia” is a name that belongs to them. Oh, yeah apparently Alexander the Great was a FYROM guy as well. lol.

FYROM guys ask your grandparents about “Macedonia” did they heard this word ever before, when they were young?

NO! But the new generations hear from their parents that they are descendants of Alexander the Great.

But you cannot change history. The truth is written in all history books except your own.

And no our politicians do not spread propaganda, because they are WORTHLESS. We have the worst politicians ever

That’s because you don’t listen! And the fact that you tell us that we are not Macedonians feel like an insult! However we are in this s**t for finding a crack together, so let’s get this job done, we will argue later!
Anyone tried to see what the revocation tool does, because it is searching for the activated files. If someone is able to see what it is searching for exactly, maybe we would know what to look for.

@synok are you sure you really bypassed the activation and there isnt a routine that does check the key again or something because you can even enter “f*ckyouatari” and it still says activation successfull yet if you start the game again it asks for the serial again…I dont think its bypassed succesfully?

Ok ladys and gentlaments, we ve maded… We ve activated the game and played, but it crashes, so when we fixed the crack it will be called Macedonians Forever, because of the situation with the Greek hear.

Yeah, my MDS-Image runs perfect for me!!! Who needs stupid Cracks, if he has a perfect Image??? I would upload my stuff on Rapidshare, but I have only 30kb uploadspeed (Image=ca.8GB)!!! And I have no Idea of making a mini-Image!!! Can someone help me with a programm or somethingelse???

there are no macedonians/skopians and stuff…dont forget that your OWN president has greek roots…u just try to play yourself something different then greeks so u can gain independence…good luck with that!

I have mixed the tipps of iND with my Image and it runs great and the activation wasn’t a great problem!!! I spend some days to get this work, but now it runs great without any crashes!!! I’m so happy and the game is really awesome!!!
But I think I will buy this game if it’s little bit cheaper, because ATARI has great money problems, so at all of you:
Buy this awesome game if you like it!!! ATARI ROCKS!!!

to Macedonian: Could you show us some proofs ? I’m asking this because there were some “crackers” before you too, who were saying that they managed to crack it too, but instead they appeared to be real motherfu***rs.

@724
no way, this is the internet, there are no liars or fakers here.
btw, i also cracked it, two times already just for the fun of it. but i also prefer not to post any proof of any kind at all or even the crack itself for no apparent reason.

@ others: Dunno if the Macedonian/Greek/Skopje/fyrom/whatever_thats_just_letters is a fake, but it looks so from here. However “the old wise cracker” said not to release activation/dvd checks fixes. Why? Because sony’s gonna look at how you made your cracks and make it harder next time. That’s why we’ve to unpack the game exe. And trust me, it might be called unpacking but it’s wayyyyyy more complicated than just dbl clicking on a rar file.

Ok now i think that i should give u the news, the crack will be available from another crackers, that post with my country name was a joke, so sooner it will be available on http://www.gamecopyworld.com etc. I m playin the game and it awesome. The crack that we have made with the bug, we gave it to a friend for Germany he know what to do, so just w8. I m playin the game with the bug, when it crashes i m doing a few things and than starting again, but its not enyoable so pls w8.

@737 Whaaat?!: you’re 33%right 34%wrong and 33% is uncretain
-what is true:”Lol im not following anymore .”
-what is wrong(totaly):”So basically Gniarf your telling us there is a work around crack but it wont be released because of Sony”
-what isn’t certain:”Only an .exe will be released.”

I was saying that:
1-Macedonian crack LOOKS like a fake
2-IF it weren’t a fake, then the reason for them not to release would be [what I said @733].

theres a mini-image on gcw, suppose ud get a working serial nr, u woundlt need any crack at all, or am i wrong here?. cus u could just switch off ur inet and do the manual activation, assuming u have a working serial ofc. and last game check would be the mini image assuming it works. i tried this but it was after i already tried to use the serialnr in the .nfo
so i think they updated my securom reg info bout it beeing banned and so i cant try again without reinstall(vry hard to delete securom reg data). anyone tried this? switching off internet using the mini image and do the manual activation?.

Great, keep talkin about my country and about my work, and u will get the crack. The Germany boy is Macedonian who his parents were deported from the ocupated teritroy by Greece (todays northern Greece or sounthern Macedonia (aegean macedonia)). I`ve told him to post the crack on RLS log, so when he read about your fu“`in nacional ocuppation, he ll be disapointed and he ll not post the crack. Just stfu about everything and w8.

To the yougoslavian who thinks he is a Greek:
Listen son, why don’t you take your mamma and your little sister on a honeymoon?
Lots of love in the Greek islands. You can have many “little “macadonians” with your mamma, right?
Computers is no good for you. Goats and donkeys are.

Shut up you all. Lets’ just sit and wait… We have other games to play except Alone in the Dark. Haven’t we ??? So stop insulting each other, it doesn’t prove that you are smart…So calm down everybody. Can’t you see ? This stupid game made you all angry….

Ohhh c’mon now we’re talking about some conspiracy from Atari to turn us (the people) on each other???
Atari made a big fusion with Infogrames earning 11 million dollars so is no more in bankruptcy (check wikipedia if you don’t believe me).
If jokerski tells the truth we should see some evidence real soon …and if he’s a liar : who cares??? Stop insulting others , it’s not cool at all !!!

I have installed the Game on some Computers of my friends now and it works great too!!! But nobody seems to know a way to create a smaller Image (for uploading)!!! What should I do???I can’t help you that way!!!

I am stuck at this page refreshing over and over hoping to see the words PROPER CRACk or WE DID IT ….and im not seeing those words just the box shot of aitd and the guy on the front laughing at my failiure*CRY*

@787 demon92
(This file has been downloaded 160 times
File size 1 MB, uploaded 19 days 14 hours 18 minutes ago)
do you really think that after “so many downloads” and 19 days this crack works?
gimme a brake…

1-Could someone show me a golden key/manual activation code. It’s just to have the format.
2-Could someone have a look at code at 018BF93E. Lots of text comes through there, at some point I see the serial, then manual activation codes. But I don’t undrstand very well what this procedure does.

vm_reg14 is actually vm_context.self_context_ptr, so by looking at this code to vm_reg23C is stored address of vm_regC8, and then data is pushed onto stack, also value stored in vm_reg238 (5Bh) is also pushed onto stack. Then address of vm_reg3C8 is calculated, and SecuROM VM calls this code. It is that small portion of data moved to vm_rec3C8-3E0, so we are now sure that SecuROM at runtime generates code on it’s vm_context which is executed.

Forgive but BioShock was “lying” to the weekly low exiting, it took 5 days. BioShock used the same system of protectionm,AITD 5 uses an evolution of the previous system, it has not left the patch because people also have the right to leave, let’s leave the nonsense that is already well into 800 post

Ok guys this is officialy the end of cracking, this game can’t be cracked cause it has some special features.The scene got toghether today and discussed over this problem and all reached this conclusion.Sorry guys, i apologize in the name of the scene and all crackers.Let’s hope there will be no more games with this protection feature.

Ok guys this is officialy the end of cracking, this game can’t be cracked cause it has some special features that makes it VERY VERY hard to crack.The scene got toghether today and discussed over this problem and all reached this conclusion.Sorry guys, i apologize in the name of the scene and all crackers.Let’s hope there will be no more games with this protection feature.

Ok guys this is officialy the end of cracking, this game can’t be cracked cause it has some special features that makes it VERY VERY hard to crack.The scene got toghether today and discussed over this problem and all reached this conclusion.Sorry guys, i apologize in the name of the scene and all crackers.Let’s hope there will be no more games with this protection feature:((

Sorry guys for the triple post but i got some internet problems:|.Fe found that even if you turn of your internet and use manual activation, the game conects to the server in the moment you turn you internet on and does a recheck, removing license and baning the cd-key.We have a working crack but as i said itlasts till you conect to internet so there is no point in releasing it:|

Sorry guys for the triple post but i got some internet problems:|.We found that even if you turn off your internet and use manual activation, the game connects to the server in the moment you turn you internet on and does a recheck, removing license and banning the cd-key.We have a working crack but as i said it lasts till you conect to internet so there is no point in releasing it:|

to Gniarf: I know that I could say something stupid….but I’m too desperate and don’t know what to do. I don’t know a damn thing in cracking or something…I just…don’t know. If I could help you with something just say it….

@825
Gniarf:
“We have a working crack but as i said itlasts till you conect to internet so there is no point in releasing it:|”
don’t you wanna give us a try?
if you have 2 disks drives and windows on both you can install AITD in one of them without connecting to internet… if you’re for real post your damm crack.

@818,819,821,823,827,831 Gniarf:
“The scene got toghether today and discussed over this problem and all reached this conclusion.Sorry guys, i apologize in the name of the scene and all crackers.”
->I’m neither know how to contact the scene nor am a scener though.

“Ok guys this is officialy the end of cracking”
->My a**

“Fe found that even if you turn of your internet and use manual activation, the game conects to the server in the moment you turn you internet on and does a recheck, removing license and baning the cd-key”
->1 Ever heard about the word “firewall?” or “host files”?
->2 And of course I get my cd key banned because the inet was down and I had to activate manually getting my activation code @cybercafe.

“*correcting spelling problems*”
->for you next attempt: I do make a lot of typos ideed, but I’ll never spam the board with another post “just for typos”

“Just try to use you firewall and see what happens nab, i know what i am talking about”
->IF you weren’t lying (but I’m near certain you are), I’d say “that’s because you don’t know how to use vistas firewall, it block incoming transmition, not outgoing” and I add “2 IQed moron”.

I know the name “Gniarf” isn’t reserved, but I do really hate those guys using my name.

@826 Thetruthrevealer: power off modem – works 100% times to block inet access. Alternatively right click->deactivate in “network connections” might do it too.

@833 Thetruthrevealer: Do you know how to use ollydbg?

@834 don117: bull’s eye!

@839 LizZarD: I’d even post an unfinished crack. Why? ‘coz someone might be able to fininsh it like I finished reloaded’s for mass fx.

This game MUST BE CRACKED if not every company will use this system and it would the end for the scene and cracks so work hard and let em see that they can’t do anything to stop the scene and crackers!

Have no fear. It’ll get cracked. Vista got cracked and that was setup to need an actual chip on the motherboard to match, and somebody even broke THAT. Just be patient. Go play Assassin’ Creed, DMC4… Water takes forever to boil if you just stand there waiting…

1-the unlock code is first read from text box at 10010067
2-at 1001C40B-1001C417 its length (in characters) is calculated, with a maximum of 18 letters (null terminator not counted)
3-at 1001A5D4-1001A5FE it is converted to ascii
– that’s all paul is good for, the rest is done in the game.exe between 015AE480 and 015AE587

4-at 018BFE5D there is another lenght calculator for the ascii string.
5-at 018BF8E0 the ascii string is copied in the middle of a numbers{text}numbers ascii chain
5.5-I haven’t found any read operation on the weird string. Did I fail at length check?
6-the game says the activation failed

FFS could anyone just MAKE A crack already?? please so we all could close this damn case friggin 868 comments and NO working crack so far… we need to release before we make a thousand commments,,,then this is redicilous

I’m uploading my Image and some data to hack the activation on Rapidshare, but it will take time guys (8-9GB)!!! Some of you said that I am a faker but I’m not and I will give you the proof tomorrow, when it’s done!!!Be patient!!!

Sorry, but I have included the activation hack into the Image!!! So you must download the whole game again, tomorrow!!!
Be patient, my DSL-Connection 3000 is damn slow if I upload on Rapidshare (40kb/s)!!! I also will add a readme with some info, how you guys must install this one correctly!!!

This is bull**it! Just take the hack from the image and upload it! Where is the difficult? We have to download 8GB FAKE? We don’t trust anyone! They say all the time they have a crack! And is always fake! I am wrong???

Noone here is capable of cracking anything.
Don’t get your hopes up guys, its all a bunch of empty words, that are useless to even mention on here at all.
I’f i was a cracker, i would spend time getting a working crack, not posting comments on some release page.

No crack has been made yet, and it wont be for a while.
Not from any of theese amateurs atleast.

Man if you cant wait your not even worth it to download the crack, you noobs all think its that easy maybe…You need to get a life there are other things happening in the world besides waiting for a crack, eventually it will arive, If you cant wait then buy it and stfu.

Thetruthrevealer above is not real me…it’s again that Faked gniarf..Atari’s butt kisser… Listen people, I will never ever say something about the work of others, about an indestructibility of game’s protection or something…I would’n t doubt others….So you know who was thetruthrevealer above…877, 904, 906 ARE NOT MY COMMENTS !!! So just recognize this man in future and just ignore him…

- without doubt the biggest disappointment this generation of consoles has seen and a game that’s impossible to recommend-

-We so wanted to like this game but it kept slapping us in the face with bad controls, repetitive puzzles and the annoying inventory-

-Something just doesn’t add up about it, and the real mystery in Alone in the Dark isn’t what happened in Central Park, but what happened inside of Atari’s offices-

-It is almost unplayable with its flawed control scheme-

-Alone In the Dark controls too stiffly, resulting in an abundance of cheap deaths. In addition, the item interface is clumsy, the third-person camera angles work against you and the driving sequence borderlines on unplayable-

ROFL! Like a screenshot proves ANYTHING!
If you ‘ll be posting youtube crap, make sure it’s not ingame footage, but a video where one can actually see the cracked game launch… hell you could post few images from ign, gamespot, or w/e and most people here would believe you lol.

When the game installs it downloads two files: Alone.exe and secring.gpg. Anyone knows what the second one is used for, because I can’t find it using Search (and yes, I have searched with all options ticked)?

I’ve read comments, i’ve seen almost all the trailers and i am not sure about how good this game is, but i’m sure about two thing the idea is good ( i’m sure that it will open a lot of doors for al the survivor horror game that will come and if this game is bad is only a sacrifice, the other games that will fallow i’m sure will be much better) and the other thing is the music wich i think is one of the best music that i’ve heard in a game. Peace

Instructions:
1. Copy the Keygen in The AITD 5 Folder to The Original .exe
2. Run keygen
3. Start the game
4. Use as Serial: [removed - DH] from The Keygen And click Activate!
4.1 Now You you can see a Message: This serial number was used on too many computer!
5. Click acivate Manually
6. copy the activation request code!
7. Insert the activation request code on the keygen into The Free line
8. Close the ALONE IN THE DARK AKTIVATION!
9. Click Aktivate on the Keygen. Now, when the keygen close, the game activated.
10. Go To the KEYGEN FOLDER AND PRESS On securomkill.reg And press again Yes
11. Copy the ALONE.exe,The Paul.dll and the lang.ini from the KEYGEN FOLDER IN THE GAME FOLER!
12. START THE GAME!
ENJOY ALONE IN THE DARK 5 (2008)

Gamershell:
Alone in the Dark Reaches No. 1 in UK and Germany
home > News > General
13:52 June 26th, 2008
Putting some daylight between the other games at the top of the European Xbox 360 sales charts
Atari and Eden Games have announced that Alone in the Dark has topped the Xbox 360 sales charts across Europe following its release on 20 June 2008. Alone in the Dark is officially No.1 in the UK and Germany, two of the largest Xbox 360 markets in Europe.

@i think there’s no need to feel petty about ATARI, all groups can start on cracking this game, so get back to work you fools.

Woo Hoo, I got the crack guys. Got a nice rock for 10 bucks. I’m gonna go home and try it out. I’ll let you guys know if it works or not in about 20 minutes. You too can get the crack. Just tell Jimmy that Gonads sent ya.

Oh man, that was some good crack. I tried it with all the releases and didnt seem to work. I couldn’t figure out how to install it on my pc so i just smoked it. If anyone one else has any ideas, i’m willing to go buy another rock and try it out again. Your advice would be greatly appreciated.
Oh btw Jackz, it’s pure white. (not sure if that info will help) We are all talking about the same crack, right?

nope, Gniarf, LizZard and the others i think they gave up researching or maybe they still working on it, so now we have to be patience until some of the good crackers turns his backs to Atari and start working on it.

I just went out and bought the god damn game for the 360 and I like it so far clunky controls but you will get used to it.
If you play with a gamecontroller that is cant imagine how it handles on a keyboard.

I can play and you can not!!! You fools!!! By the way, the crack for AITD 5 will be released next week!!! I got this news from an insider of the gamer hacking-scene!!! “ATARI has now enough money”: he said!!! So you have to wait!!!
WAIT OR BUY IT!!!

Okay thanks it seems it can be trusted i tested the application and indeed we need a legit key. But how do we know that revoke tool just doestn steal your legit key and sends it to the russian developers!!

Once u have activated the game with a legit key u run this revoke it ask a password it’s rugcw.com then u go ahead and it sends to the atari servers the message that that serial has been deactivated but ur game will work even if the key has been revoked!

and even so ther are ALWAYS n00bs that will just steal the key and keep it active for themselves ALWAYS, you cant deny that. Personally i would never do that you’d be the lowest scum on the planet but there ARE always others!

We’ve been reading this whole topic and unfortunately we see many fake cracks and many fake names (ours has been stolen as well). It’s a pity you all didn’t open the “help.txt” file we put in the crack, it says exactly what you need to do to make Alone in the Dark 5 work. There also is an older version of the help file with it (we put it with it just in case) and it works with every version of Alone in the Dark 5, not just ours.
And by the way, why we are the only cracking group that makes an actual working crack is because Deviant and all those other newbish groups just can’t handle the game to make a working crack for it.

We are currently working on a new crack for Alone in the Dark 5 since the old one gave just 1 problem: after episode 5 you will lag which will make your computer reboot.

We’re terribly sorry for any trouble this version of the crack may have caused you. Don’t be afraid to contact us at http://www.ind-europe.com

@1133
wait a minute…….. what kind of file you’re talking about.
“HELP”???.file????
the .nfo, or the invisible file that only in your system can be found…
sry I didn’t want to be so aggressive, but after 1150 questions and 0(0)0 answers people act like that.

gfunk in that rar doesn’t have all of the Files that i saw in the Video like the AITD folder which have 10 file, the secu_license, and Alone data_DFE folder its all’s missing!
And where we need to copy the Securom folder and the data_dfe and that drn_dynata_73700007.dll ???

you can translate it with firefox and google, just click on “translate this page” or tell me exactly the page you wanna see, i was there too but i didn’t find nothing interesting they’re researching the securom data and how to make a master key.

@1147 Cheesebrow
if you want that files u just have to register at NForce.nl the site were you get the video from, they cannot post them ’cause it’s forbidden to share that kind of files, but they can PN you the files if you’re a member.

It looks like it work but most of the files in the video are allready in the install dir with the same file size. But we can only know if and in wich way it will work when we get the complet files with the securom regitry editing files.

OW FLYING F*CK this is also based on a game with a legit key to begin with F*CK!!! He is using some log file from the AITD revocation tool. Then he revokes his original key so it would seem online his key is not in use online but he can still play. So this is WORTHLESS without a legit key.

duh ofcourse thats what i said first he activated the game with a legit key then with this “crack” it revokes the activated key and turns it inactive online buut keeps the game itself active offline. So only way this is gonna work if you have a legit key to begin with,,,again worthless is this ever going to end :/

Basically it can be cracked if we keep sharing legit keys and revoking them but that will never happen you always have leechers and uploaders, just like now you will have people who will revoke the key and people who will just activate and stop there. So basically we are not waiting for a good crack but waiting for an honnest “passing on the serial” method from one to another.
Also they will notice after a while that the same key is being activated and revoked all the time :/. But for now the problems lies with us and im afraid it will stay that way.

Haha this is funny nobody read what i say, look closely at the video he was deleting 2 AITD revoke log files from the online site! So this crack is worthless without a pre-activated game,

This crack and listen up is for a game that has been activated, then revoked key online, then replaced with the crack files to let them think the key is not in use anymore BUT it (the key+game) will still work offline.

In theory when you pass on that same key too someone else you can do this all over again, quite worthless if its based again on a legit key, I hope everyone understands now,

@Cheesebrow well if you posted the vid then you should know what i say is correct, we are back at the start.

Not really, if you have the files he used and the vid, watch the video closely you will see the keys that are run from the bat files are different to the ones he released to us. I copied on of the keys 1bb5526db9b02cc15551233f253f253fa73f and replaced it in the bat file and i got rid of that error message the huge securom key which we getting errors on is also incorrect. I just dont have the time to copy it from the vid.

Yes i know that you have to replace the securom path in the reg file and the bat file, i did that, then ran the bat file everything fine, then he goes to step 3 where you have to:

“replace your license information then with the data given in the batch file, revoke serial and voilà thats your activation profile, your valid serial is still unused.”

okay lets go over this replace your licencse information? What licence when you dont have an activated game,,,revoke serial okay what serial,,,its not activated, “your VALID serial is still unused” hence legit key i think,,,

Hey all. Great news. I found the crack. Please follow these steps carefully. 1st, pull pants down. Now carefully inspect your lower backside. Now with both hands spread cheeks and voila, you have now have ass- Crack

I’m out of here to,
theres a loot of pretty games in august, allot bether than this one.
Flatout-carnage
Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway
Two Worlds: Epic Edition
GTR-Evolution
Penumbra: Requiem
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
so who cares…

Hmm dont u hear about it, that the cracker community wont crack this game, cause of the situation of ATARI. In other words they keep distance. Infact they wont respeonsible for ATARI’s “surrender” which might could happen.

1. Copie the Temp folder in your temp folder X:\Document and settings\Owner\Lokale Einstellungen/local settings/TEMP.
2. Copie the SecuRom Folder in your x:\Document and settings\owner\application data and replace that sh’t
3. Copie the files in the AITD folder in your main Alone in the dark folder and replace it homie.#
4. IMPORTANT do it! change the secu_license.bat and the regfix.reg. open right click and open with editor.

THAT MEANS; you’ll have to replace all the HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3213167417-1751801417-2123412170-1000\Software\SecuROM entry paths in the batch file and the regfix.reg with your own system path. It differs from each machine.
How you can it? Go Start, Execute; type regedit. Go HKEY_Users, then you can see your path BEGINNING WITH “S-1-5-21-”
copie the line and replace it in the secu_license.bat and the regfix.reg file. In my case its S-1-5-21-796845957-1060284298-712345543-1002 replace it with S-1-5-21-3213167417-1751801417-2123412170-1000 in the files.
Well done then you start the game. You need a key to activate but DAA-4TUY-A7AT-TQ7B-HXV4 doesnt work for me but another key ive found , i will send it to you if you are ready,
and sorry for my bad english
It works auf Jeden fall und was den key betrifft, erst sollt ihr alles machen bevor ich euch den key gebe, weil sonst der key gesperrt wird wegen euch

1. Copie the Temp folder in your temp folder X:\Document and settings\Owner\Lokale Einstellungen/local settings/TEMP.
2. Copie the SecuRom Folder in your x:\Document and settings\owner\application data and replace that sh’t
3. Copie the files in the AITD folder in your main Alone in the dark folder and replace it homie.#
4. IMPORTANT do it! change the secu_license.bat and the regfix.reg. open right click and open with editor.

THAT MEANS; you’ll have to replace all the HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3213167417-1751801417-2123412170-1000\Software\SecuROM entry paths in the batch file and the regfix.reg with your own system path. It differs from each machine.
How you can it? Go Start, Execute; type regedit. Go HKEY_Users, then you can see your path BEGINNING WITH “S-1-5-21-”

copie the line and replace it in the secu_license.bat and the regfix.reg file. In my case its S-1-5-21-796845957-1060284298-712345543-1002 replace it with S-1-5-21-3213167417-1751801417-2123412170-1000 in the files.
Well done then you start the game. You need a key to activate but DAA-4TUY-A7AT-TQ7B-HXV4 doesnt work for me but another key ive found , i will send it to you if you are ready,
and sorry for my bad english
It works auf Jeden fall und was den key betrifft, erst sollt ihr alles machen bevor ich euch den key gebe, weil sonst der key gesperrt wird wegen euch

when the install of the game start….the intaller download some files on the computer and whitout permision of the user and warning…im not sure but is ilegal to force the user to install this files by downloding

Tom you get this error because you didnt replace your path to your securom folder in the bat and reg file, You need to do this otherwhise the crack cant locate your specific files

Go to RUN –> regedit –> HKEY_USERS (expand the map) and you will see a long code like this HKEY_USERS\S-x-x-xx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx which is unique for all pc’s copy that code by pressing right mouse button and selecting copy key name then you replace that in the bat and reg file, then your path to the securom folder is correct

no jacks, Locke86 needs first to revoke his key, after that, but only after that, he can send it to the next one, and the next one has to revoke to, the problem is that until now he didn’t manage to revoke his own.

Don’t you see people the f***ing crackers are watching us suffering and dyung for that game most of us spent most of the day keep refreshing that page and see what’s new we gave them a lot of fun.I am sure that game is cracked allready and they are waiting for self-pleasure so people grow up it’s only a game and the crack will be out some day so cheer up and look for your lives don’t give those bastards a reason to be pleased

we wanned to make an endless chain with the key but someone locked it down and don’t want to revoke,or he don’t know how to, so the one who locked the key down please revoke so that others can use it to.
if the one nead some answers we’re here to give them.

Locke86 you shouldnt have posted your key in public! First PM(email) the people that know how to crack it and can be trusted to revoke the key! If some noob has it now or doesnt want to revoke :/, that key is lost im afraid, not to be all that but you should have given it to me first atleast i understand how it works and wrote a tutorial for others.

Atari have today signed Black Lion Studios’ upcoming third-person tactical action title for the Xbox 360 and PC, Shadow Harvest.

Shadow Harvest, revealed earlier this year, will feature dual character control, realistic graphics and a refreshingly different storyline, Shadow Harvest is a completely new interpretation of the tactical-action genre.

Shadow Harvest is set for a worldwide release in Q1 2009 for both the Xbox 360 and PC.

Yeah and guess what protection they will use! Thats right we are f*cked i want to poke my knife in the scene a little. Stupid ego tripping good for nothings release all these never heared of games and ignoring the big picture. Only caring about rep and being on top bah some release group grow some balls and start working on AITD! FFS!

and funny is that those small developers need more financial support then Atari, but the scene crack them anyway, so where’s the proud of the sceners.
I think they don’t have enough skills to handle it, so I’ll wait an see what comes next.

I would like to hear a statement from reloaded or vitality or whatever in an nfo file…I mean its been over a month and you hear nothing from these idiots, they keep on releasing crap/nobody cares/f*g games and totally ingore aitd, i mean there not blind, someone of there group must read this topic or other topics involving this but all keeps quiet.
They could atleast say hey guys we are working on it sit tight, or damn we are f*cked too 1337 protection.

Thx man credits @MeAgain from sure sure :d for pasting the whole TUT together good job m8. Now even the biggest ****** should be able to handle the crack . Ah well maybe someday a legit key will walk in our eyesight but i wouldnt count on it :/.

I might be “naive”, when the subject concerns to game cracking… but i just wanna play the game!! Isnt that what we all want???? So, stop with all that stupid comments and help the people that don´t hunderstand this process!!!

are you freaking stupid?! no one will give you a legit key!! it is like some one will give you the game! so this isnt a real crack, it is like saying ok heres a way to play the game btw you need the real key from the game you bought!

@chawlin007
how can I know what problem u have if u don’T POST IT!!!
1-do you have a legit key?
2-did you RUN the secu_license.bat file
3-did you watch the video(run it slowly so you can see step by step)
if not don’t even bother posting something.
no DVD Patch:http://m0008.gamecopyworld.com/games/pc_alone_in_the_dark_2008.shtml
Play Instructions:

* Install the game – Full Installation.
* Mount the MI-AITD.MDS Mini-Image in DAEMON Tools v4.12.3.
* Set speed of the virtual drive to 1x using Nero DriveSpeed.
* Use an anti-blacklisting tool, like Y.A.S.U v1.3, to avoid blacklisting of DAEMON Tools.
* Play the Game!

hey…one more question…when I go to mine regedit and go to SercuRom folder…i try to open the License Information (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SecuROM\License Information) I see this message:
“Unable to open License Information.
An error is preventing key is being opened.
Details: The system can not find the file specified”

go to a store, by your self AITD 5 and the legit key you can find it in the DVD case, on the DVD, or in the manual.
this TUT was only made for the purpose to revoke your original key. you can play the game without being assign on Atari server(offline).
so if you have enough friends or people you can trust, give them your original KEY, so that they can do the same that you did. REVOKE”!
or if you you know someone who bought the game, ask him for the key and REVOKE the KEY again.
read the post nr.1135.

MeAgain
where is the real proof that the REVOKE technique
is working?
all we saw is a video,that really can be fake?
beside that video I didn’t saw anyone who really confirmed
that it’s really working…
can you confirmed this your self
or you are saying things that are based
on that video?

“we wanned to make an endless chain with the key but someone locked it down and don’t want to revoke,or he don’t know how to, so the one who locked the key down please revoke so that others can use it to.
if the one nead some answers we’re here to give them.”

so that can be proof that this technique
doesn’t working.
need a real confirmation for someone from this forum.

“if you have enough friends or people you can trust, give them your original KEY, so that they can do the same that you did. REVOKE”!
or if you you know someone who bought the game, ask him for the key and REVOKE the KEY again.”
DO NOT GIVE YOU ORIGINAL KEY TO SOMEONE YOU DON’T KNOW OR YOU CAN’T TRUST.
PS:learn how to read.

“if you have enough friends or people you can trust, give them your original KEY, so that they can do the same that you did. REVOKE”!
or if you you know someone who bought the game, ask him for the key and REVOKE the KEY again.”
DO NOT GIVE YOU ORIGINAL KEY TO SOMEONE YOU DON’T KNOW OR YOU CAN’T TRUST.
PS:learn how to read.”

How the hell it’s a confirmation that it’s working?
anyone can write a guide or a explanation to crack
there is a lot of fake Crack’s here with guides.
can you confirm this your self that’s is working?
have you really tested it?

hey, sorry man, I’ve already wasted to much time on this fuc*ing game/crack, just try it for yourself, i don’t give a fu*k it works or not, just like i’ve said before, SEE YOU ON THE NEXT RELEASE.
PEACE.

so you have giving hare guides to the crack/REVOKE technique
without know for sure if it working or not?
this crack/REVOKE technique can be fake to trick people to
give there serial they have paid for…
didn’t you thinking about this?
no one has really confirm for now that it’s working
beside the one with the video.

you are just a waste of time of
everyone life
I have feeling this is fake,there is no really proof for now that is really working,and all the cracks here are fakes.
I’m going to sleep now and never response to you again.
goodbye,sir.

sorry @Key I didn’t want to be so hard with you, but this f*ck*ng sh*t starts to creeping me off man, if you don’t want, just wait for a scene release, it ain’t gonna take long until a real cr@ck comes out, so PEACE:-)

key trust me this works…as every 1 keeps telling you you need a legit key..and 2 obtain 1 entirely by urself…wuld be really really pointless as u culd just use it however if u where to get one of someone on this forum..or say some friend to give u key….diff story altho sum 1 is obviously gunna fuk this up and not revoke it properly rendering every 1ns actvations useless…

@key, i have some questions for you
1-define key/serial
2-define original
3-define revoke tool
4-define crack
5-define offline
only after you answered this questions you will be able to crack the game.

Just like it has already the 1st guy that had this key didnt revoke it so why dont you stop whining and buy AITD then pass the key on to us then you’ll have your proof.
By the way why the f*ck does anything have to be proven to you?

and this one is for the SCENERS:
if you really want to crack games like AITD, i advise you to start with this one.
:Nitro Stunt Racing:
hers the serial:1BYLK-ZL7NC-TDI9N-2CIA6-RC2JZ-5IJNR (Key does not work for English demo)
this game was made from someone who worked for 3 years for Atari, and they fired him/them.

hi Gniarf, Still no luck latest thing we tried is that revoke crack and it should work with a legit key but the first guy that used the key didnt revoke it so we were f*cked from the beginning :/. Every crack out there is based on a legit key so this is going no where.

Say that I’m annoying whith this, but I would REALLY appreciate to see what a manual unlock code looks like. Let me explain: I wrote a little brute forcer-tries all possibles manual unlock codes until one works .The problem is that I don’t even know how many letters the unlock code has, it’s just between 10 and 18 (I’m not even totaly sure of those).
Basic calculation:
10 letters->4,808,584,372,417,849 possibilities
11 letters-> 177,917,621,779,460,413 possibilities
18 letters->16,890,053,810,563,300,749,953,435,929 possibilities

So you know, I wouldn’t mind speeding up the process.

@ppl who know:
1-knowing where I put the code, manual activation code (the other, the one the game gives) generation shouldn’t be an issue – I hope…
2-I know, a brute forcer, that’s desperate. I don’t really expect it to work. But at least I can say I’m trying when I ditch and leave the comp with 50% cpu usage.

What the F*ck is wrong with you guys. It’s a sad day when the scence can’t come together to work together. Instead we have a bunch of noobs and selfish f*cks who want to do nothing but expect everything. I hope all of you burn in hell for all eternity. I hope your eyes fall outta your head. I hope that you do get that cancer behind the ole eyes. I’m tired of reading the nonsense posts about key sharing. Wake up people, there isn’t a proper working crack and there may never be one. There are more interesting things out there besides Aitd. Like getting laid, or just going outside for a change besides sitting at the pc with some pop tarts and funions growing pimples by the second.
And on that note, I say a great big F*CK YOU to Christiam Bam

if that’s what he want, let us give it to him. we should all register on his homepage and let him know what we think about him his “g@yfest crap art”. i have some real nice pics to post there. so, who’s on it?

Bah why cant these guys use english like normal people in there tutorials. Its some kind of workaround with game jackal using a “cracked” profile i think and you have to setup an image of somekind with Acronis but thats all in russian. Anyone care to make a good tutorial for this

It doesnt seem fake to me actually there is an alone in the dark gamejackal profile in the crack directory. And keys to add to the registry. I think you have to setup an image of somekind and let gamejackal think its running the image legit, the activation is basically in the gamejackal profile i asume so that it skips the key checking and it lets you play without a cd also. But its all in russian so i cant be sure.

What i know so far is that you install gamejackal and have to replace the folders under “Game Jackal” located in the crack directory to the gamejackal install directory then an alone in the dark.exe appears in game jackal then in gamejackal you have to edit your path to you install directory and select the right profile according to the pdf file but i dont know what the Acronis image is for dont understand that part of the crack all russian.

Gamejackal asks for a DVD to insert when it launches the game so i asume that Acronis image has something to do with it.

Aah i get it know i think, He makes an image of his windows a backup with the securom files and Alone in the park activated. Then with the revoke tool he turns his key offline from the atari servers. Then with this work around using a gamejackal profile you can play the game again offline and let gamejackal think its still registered hence the Acronis image. But the key is also offline again with Atari so you can pass it on.
Worthless again without a legit key

That is exactly what we need a keygen…But i dont think 5 serials is enough to do it, i dont even know if its possible to do these have to be real keys on the atari server! So that would mean if the keygen succeeds you would render possible new games in retail unplayable. I think its quite impossible to manufacture a keygen.

Or the only possiblity is to analyze the manual activation request code and base a keygen on that activation code but i dont know if it is related to one another:

That is exactly what we need a keygen…But i dont think 5 serials is enough to do it, i dont even know if its possible to do these have to be real keys on the atari server! So that would mean if the keygen succeeds you would render possible new games in retail unplayable. I think its quite impossible to manufacture a keygen.

Or the only possiblity is to analyze the manual activation request code and base a keygen on that activation code but i dont know if it is related to one another:

didnt gniarf ahve something that scans possibilitys…brute forcer? i have no idea if it wil wrok for request codes..i dnt really know what im talking about…but gniarf said it could be used for manual unlock codes.

@1492/1493 sure sure/abla:
keygen for serials: give up, if it were easy crypto/maths just looking at a few serials would be enough nut sony isn’t that stupid.
request codes: first you need to see a manual unlock code (ie: what I’m asking fo r the 4th time now) then analyse request to unlock codes relationship – [re-read "keygen for serials" part].
manual unlock code: Wha’ dya thin’ I’ve been doin’? (anyone with asm knoledge willing to help me on that?)

1494 jackz: as MeAgain says brute force is pretty damn slow: it hit the 5th letter 2 times in 24h (remnder: manual unlock codes have 10 or more letters)

I think what we need is some one with a legit key revoke his lisence and activate the game manualy we just need the lock code that AITD activation give and the unlock code the site give not asking for the legit key.
Hope that the unlock code is related to the legit key and the unlock key.
Come on people we need some help here.

I think what we need is some one with a legit key revoke his lisence and activate the game manualy we just need the lock code that AITD activation give and the unlock code the site give not asking for the legit key.
Hope that the unlock code is not related to the legit key and the unlock key.
Come on people we need some help here.

the only way that i see to solve this problem is to do like once people done with Valve’s games like HL:2, EP1 and so on, they have extracted all .CFG’s from the main game made a Steam emulator and repack it again, but this game i don’T think someone will give the work to make such a tremendous peace of art.

Crap…
-We cannot play the game with your manual unlock code – they are computer specific.
-We cannot get your hardware specs/computer name/username from you manual unlock code.
-Posting your unlock code won’t disable your copy.
-IF you still have doubts, then replace all letters by X,all numbers by N and leaves the dashes( – ) – Even that is enough for me.

Dude i hope you understood it correctly i dont have the unlock code cause i dont have the game not yet anyway if i could buy it el cheapo i would be glad to give you the unlock code i used but for now sorry.

–> come on guys someone share their unlock code for the manually activation!

@gniarf
Can you tell us what program and method do you use so we can devide the work between us ?
I hope i can help…
I mean the brute force program.
Tell us to share the work so we can achieve what we want in a less time

@gniarf
Couldn’t we use the paull.dll of the two previous releases bioshock & the other one “i don’t recall the name right now” they were using the same protection. I mean comparing the original and the cracked one to see how they managed to crack them.
I don’t know if that would help??

@Gniarf
Now i’ve rememberd you were the one who cracked mass effect if i am not wrong you did the proper fixed exe and fix the galaxy map so we are talking about a big good cracker here or weren’t you???

Yeah but Gniarf I don’t think ever cracked the activation or CD protection, he only (well I say only) cracked the memory addresses that were being set off by the game protection causing it to break things in the game.

Reloaded originally fixed the activation. But still Gniarf might still be able to do it , question is why can’t the others if they have cracked this protection before (and quite quickly). Maybe this game is like mass effect and has a few bugs after you crack it and they don’t want to be nuked for bad crack .

all the cr@ckers wore(are) on vacations,they’re just people like us, so next week they’ll all be back again and in two weeks the cr@ck will be done. that means only on the 3rd week of august we will be able to play AITD, and until then nobody gonna give a sh@t about it, do you wanna why?
Flatout-carnage
Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway
GTR-Evolution
Penumbra: Requiem
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
they gonna have enough do in august.

Yes i bought the retail dvd version on ebay 4 el cheapo :d what luck ey, im waiting for it to be shipped yes. So as soon as it arrives i will do the manual activation process and let Gniarf know the specific request and unlock code.

@1517 sub-zero: I don’t think we can use the paul from other games, because the manual unlock code check in not in this file. Over-simplifying things, we could say that all paul does is just to display dialogboxes, but it’s alone.exe that tell what to put in those boxes

@1519 sub-zero: No, I’m NOT a big cracker. The only thing I ever cracked was command and conquer 3, and that was because I had the tutor. As for mass effect it’s as horse says: reloaded cracked it, I just fixed some tiny bits.

@1524/1525 iCsLB/iCsLBDVL: Remember: I’m on the keygenning way, not the cracking.

@1528 sure sure:I have the game iso now, so I got all the files I need (I think).

news:
0-Yay! I “traced over” through the whole thing, return to 015AE560 is at 015AC70A. Totaly useless but make me happy.

1-I back traced the final return value (7) and it comes from 01739B4F MOV DWORD PTR DS:[EAX],ECX. The problem is with ecx: It’s the result of a friggin’ integrity check MWAHAHAHA!!! So we’ve 2 possible interpretations:
-either securom rewrites its code when it detects that the unlock code is valid so the “checksum” ends with ecx=1 (bad possibility, big headeache).
-or when the unlock code is correct the game calls another function with (maybe) another integrity check than ends up with 1 (better solution, big but smaller headeache).

2-For curiouses/securom tourists, you can see at 01698A87 a copy of the returned seven. This copy is then compared at multiples places, often associated with an error message (“unlock code has invalid format”, “unlock code has invalid CPA” (cpa=?),”a SSL error occured”, “unlock code is expired”, “unlock code is blacklisted (already used)”(wtf?),etc…).

@1538 Dr.Trif:
Try to make a riddle (to filter out ppl you don’t want to see in you email box).
Append the result with @bugmenot.com.
Send an email there
CHECK it has arrived correctly (somehow only half of “some person”‘s email reach their bugmenot destination).
And give me the riddle, I’ll reply to your email (if I find the answer).

HUGE thanks to Dr.Trif, now we’ve got some precious information. Unlock codes have the following format:
XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
where X can be either a capital letter or a number.

I know I said unlock codes had 18 letters max, so sorry I was badly wrong – they have 47.

That is not the complet story.
Why did everyone think Atari get broke when a crack for the PC version will be released? The PS2, Wii and X-Box 360 versions are playable as an copy! On the 3 systems where are no problems too copy and play the game the lose the money.

The PS3 version of this game and the PC version of this game are the only that are at this time not playable if they are not original.

@1561 Yep, and my team (Lithuania-h4x0rz) has already cracked this but we will not share. We want to laugh at scene crackers…
Geez, enough of this… We have a good keygenner (Gniarf) who’ll make keygen for this… Hopefully…

@1563
It’s fake as useual no nfo file no rared archive no group name contains two files alone.exe 1.41mb paull.dll 2.83 mb if use alone.exe (which has no icon of the game) Guess what ??
It’s not valid win32 application

Hm… we reconsidered sharing our crack (Lithuania-h4×0rz team) and we will give you a link to download it. Please guys, before downloading, agree with that you may only download this crack and not share it with anyone else! Crack works for the first 10 people only. Good luck and here is the link: http://tithuania-h4×.org/downloads/aitd5_Lithuania-h4×0rz

to all:
what was the game you downloaded? flatout? did someone prof to you if it works or not? no!!! you just download it (like my self) without any questions…
guys, this is a repack of the whole game without the need of i-net, so stop asking for videos or profs, just like i’ve said before, GET IT OR LEAVE IT.
PEACE TO ALL.

MeAgain
stop blofing
give a damen video that proof that it works
the flatout
was confirm that works
and was listed in sites like nforce
there is no “release”
just a picture and files
how come that I can’t find anyone else that say
that is working?

PacMan <– In 79 (i think)
Missile Attack | A I Was The 1st Kid In My
SuperMan | T HomeTown That Got The ATARI
E.T. Phone Home | A & A Cople Of Years Later I Was
Space Invaders | R The 1st Who Got The ……
Combat | I Commodore 64 (oh..Those days)
Rampage |
Submarine |
ALONE IN THE DARK <–

guys and gniarf i ve been watching this thread for sooo long and i think that we re in the wrong way i mean that we shouldnt bother with making a keygen which is like the most difficult thing u could do but with finding a way to pass the activation procedure or make the activation take any serial i think that i could use the activated exe,paul.dll of someone who has already bought the game and activated it. then i ll contact u again if i can figure out something

@1670 daron19:
-”a way to pass the activation procedure”: a keygen
-”make the activation take any serial”: Synok did->gmae crashes because it rechecks the license after it says “activation successful”.
-”the activated exe”: the exe isnt modified during activation. The closest thing to an “the activated exe” is a cracked exe. icslb did one but he gets bsods.

@1671 jackz: I have no experience in keygenning. I chose this approach because:
-I don’t know how to crack a game without activationg it first.
-With a crack you can miss hidden checks (cf: GM&PO) and you’re f*cked up at every patch.

The only way we can play this game is to get bought, activated and uploaded modified files here by one of us. after then i guess we all shoud play the game with no problem. but the question is….
whos gonna buy the game?

No….NO NO NO
NONE OF THE SERIALS WORK..i dought thats even the real NOS. Im nt sure if they have all bin used but since that release came a while b4 it waz put on here i dought any of the serials would work with IND version

Buying the game and supporting atari’s choice for this protection?
No way.
“i made my choice after contacting several scene members who confirmed…” Bla, bla… since when do any members of the scene know exactly what’s going on in other groups? All speculation. It will be cracked. Worst case is we have to wait till another big name title carries the same protection.

And one more thing: If you really knew any scene members you would know it’s all about winning the race. IF let’s say vitality was working on a crack (I don’t say they are) they will do hell to tell someone before it’s done.

1. Install iND Release of Alone In The Dark
2. Run securom.reg file, select yes.
3. Copy paul.dll to Install directory of the game.
4. Copy lang.ini to Install directory of the game.
5. Use the following key when activating “T4F-75G3-29BC-3C81-BF92″
6. Activation will finish and you will be promted to start the game.
7. ENJOY!!! I HOPE YOU ROT IN HELL!!

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Shout out to my homies!! You know who you are

For those who need to know, this is not the same crack that includes an exe.

Ok ppl that’s enough..stop using my nickname that’s not funny anymore..I’ve called Razor yesterday,he was my friend in highschool..he said he will release a crack within the next 10 years as soon as he collect some donation for these poor Atari people

@1727 Works: Nice attempt, but:
-I tested all those serials on aitdunlock, they are all invalid.
-When I enter your manual unlock code, aitd gives me error code 14 (unlock convert error) which is typical of codes that have the right length and dashes, but crap elsewhere.

Of course I’m still using the ind release, but until someone proves me ind and limited releases are different, I consider they are the same.

P.S.
@1710 News, regarding “OMG! Atari wants to shut down RLSLOG”, I would rather have had a virus wipe my HD than to have to look at your ugly face and that gross picture of that PIG of a girlfriend! What were you thinking Bordianu Cristi!

Can anyone help me?? i have working AITD play it… and i have xbox 360 controller for windows and i have the adapter for the wirelles none of the 2 controllers works on AITD anyone know why?? what i should do??

it`s working fine… now i`m playing it on my xbox360 controller wirelles + 1920×1080 + 7.1 HD sound works pretty good… the game is awesome… by… PS.: i revoke the key… i use and i make the crack from the video.. OK… so if anyone is using is not me:D:)

@1786 Speaker:
all the sirials are working with the mathod
->Dunno. I used the last one (I think), got my unlock code->HaPpY!
or now they are all in use
->Propably. When a serial is a fake, aitdunlock clearly says “serial invalid” (hand translated, I didnt’ get it in english). With ind serial you get “serial disabled”. And if serial is used by too many ppl…I don’t know the message.

so you don’t know what kind of message you get if the same serial was used on to many pc’s?
-Yep!

what kind of cr@cker are you after all?
->The kind that bangs his head on a KEYGEN for 2 week, knowing absolutely nothing about keygenning, but does it because no one else even bothers trying, and finally get rewarded with “f@ck you”. Does that answer your question?

Bah alot of f@ckers around here talk big but have no clue, if your too cheap to buy the game then f@ck off or WAIT for a crack. @XtoTheZ go f@ck yourself man stup1d n00b kiddie, who are you to p1ss on Gniarf…If you would know half the stuff he does you nerd head would explode! Atleast he is trying what are you doing…

2 someone
> how do you know it’s really working?
Many proofs on Russian sites. About 100 copies have been activated using this tool (and one legit key, of course). Though didn’t check be myself (no serial).

This forum can’t go like that..Everybody pretending to be other one…there is must be some kind of registration to prevent this as in any other forum..so we dont waste all the time proving if that was real Ginarf or fake one

Haha man what a kiddiegarden, anyway ill be playing some alone in the dark now , i hope the real crack is never released for such w@nkers. By the way that WAS the real Gniarf! He always quote’s the right comments. @Gniarf do you really want to do some more work 4 these @ssholes? Come on dont bother m8…

By the way i used securom_kill.reg from IND release i don’t know if it has relation with the activation i used it before i do the activation and restarted my pc i don’t know if that helped or not thought i must tell you

Working with Russian version 100%. Must work with MULTI5 I guess…
P.S. This tool is just easier – run =and enjoy
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How I make it work in Russian version? I didnt find in the previous comments.

I tried the method using the Alone.exe provided by sub-zero, but it looks like all the serials from n3wgroup are already used… So we need new serials or we need people to start using rugcw…. So how about it people?